Quality of life correlates with health and demographic characteristics of medical students

• Autor(a) principal: Pereira, Francisco Erinaldo Leite
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Ribeiro, Rafaella do Carmo, Oliveira, Liana Mirela Souza, Araujo Filho, Jorge Luiz, Tabosa, Maria Nathallya Rodrigues, Gouveia Filho, Petronio Souto, Mazzaro, Vandezita Dantas de Medeiros, Santos, Everson Vagner de Lucena, Silva, Rodrigo Bacelar da Costa, Pereira, Charlene de Oliveira, Sousa, Milena Nunes Alves de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Qualidade de Vida
• DOI: 10.3895/rbqv.v9n3.6747
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.utfpr.edu.br/rbqv/article/view/6747
• topic: Ciências da Saúde; Medicina; Saúde Coletiva; Medicina; Estudante; Qualidade de Vida; Saúde mental.; Medicine; Student; Quality of life; Mental health.

OBJECTIVE: To correlate quality of life with health and demographic characteristics of medical students from a university in the interior of the northeast.METHODS: Descriptive, transversal, analytical, quantitative approach. The final sample consisted of 138 students from the medical school, using an intentional non-probabilistic sample, the predetermined inclusion and exclusion criteria. For data collection, it was used a questionnaire to identify the social, demographic profile and student health and WHOQOL-Bref, which is validated in Brazil. The data were analyzed in the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences.RESULTS: Most of the students were women (58.7%), aged between 18 and 24 years, 45.7% of the sample considered the conditions of the course excellent and never thought to give up. However, 89.1% of students reported that they sometimes need psychiatric treatment. As for the areas of quality of life, the social score had the highest score (69.92 points) and the strongest correlations were between the environmental and physical domain, as well as environmental and social, both directly proportional and statistically significant. Still, the psychological treatment showed a positive correlation with the domains of QL.CONCLUSIONS: The findings of this study indicated there are correlations between health and demographic characteristics with the domains of quality of life, however the variables which correlate were: sex, satisfaction with the course, desire to give up the course, use of medications in due course and psychological treatment.